Vibe coding
“Vibe coding” – a cartoon that illustrates how we are all going to be able to manifest our ideas into programmable computer code, for good and bad.
Vibe coding is a new evolution in software development where individuals describe their desired outcomes in natural language (e.g. speech), and AI tools generate the code and launch working products.
The term was introduced by Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI and former Director of AI at Tesla, who described it as a new kind of coding where one “fully give[s] in to the vibes, embrace[s] exponentials, and forget[s] that the code even exists.”
The general benefit is that Vibe coding democratizes automation, allowing anyone to program AI-driven tools in their personal and professional life, making everyday tasks more efficient and seamless.
For example, Ii you have a cluttered downloads folder full of PDFs, images, documents, and other files … rather than manually dragging/dropping files you could create a script that can automatically organize them into separate folder.
All a non-technical person needs to do is type/speak into Grok, Elon Musk’s AI language model and competitor to OpenAI, and say “Write a Python script that sorts files in my Downloads folder into subfolders based on their file type (e.g., PDFs in a ‘PDFs’ folder, images in an ‘Images’ folder, etc.).”
Then run this script on your computer by installing Python, saving the script as a file, and double-clicking it … and hey presto, you have created your first computer program.
Staying informed about this is one thing, creating your own code is an even better way to understand the potential and benefit from the productivity value yourself. There’s an old saying, the future is here it just isn’t evenly distributed.
